A political economy approach to prehistory offers a robust means to understand different pathways to complexity. This essay argues that economic relations and their potential for control of surplus mobilization explain alternative evolutionary trajectories in human societies.

The twenty-five contributors to this volume are but a fraction of those indebted to Professor Kantor; but between them they pay appropriate tribute in a handsomely produced book, which includes a bibliography of the publications and communications of Helene J. Kantor.

This collection of twenty essays, of which five are in French, written by leading English and French literary and historical scholars, deconstructs the ethical and political framework supporting and circumscribing the actions of a powerful elite in France between the early 1600s and the final years of Louis XIV's reign.

The Queen of Sheba is one of the most famous women of antiquity, rivaled only by Cleopatra and Helen of Troy for wealth, power and beauty. She is best known for her legendary meeting with King Solomon, an encounter that has resonated through time, nowhere more powerfully than in Ethiopia. 95 colour, 1 b&w illustration.

Lavishly illustrated catalogue of the exhibit European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750 , explores how mapmakers sought to document a new geography of the Near East that reconciled classical ideas and theories with the information collected and brought back by travellers and voyagers. T

Faced with death's certainty-and the uncertainty of the time of its coming, particularly in a historical period of widespread plague and other afflictions, what is one to do? Everyman speaks to this dilemma.This facing page translation of this Continental play will be useful to all students of theater.

In his eloquent new book Robert Carneiro traces the history of the development of empirical science—from the Paleolithic to the present—vividly describing the major events that have marked a great transition in human thought, and how this affected the human experience.